Russian Vitaly Lunkin won the largest non-main event World Series of Poker jackpot ever early Monday morning, taking the top prize in the tournament’s special $40,000 buy-in no-limt hold’em event. Lunkin, from Moscow, won more than $1.89 million, outlasting a field of 201 players over four days of play at the Rio. Issac Haxton of [...]

No that’s NOT  Howard Stern The final table of the $40k NLHE event (Event #2) at the World Series of Poker has now been set, and Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton is your chip leader heading into Sunday’s action. Final table chip counts Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton – 5.95 million Vitaly Lunkin – 4.56 million Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis [...]

Only 28 players remain in event # 2′s 40k buy in. The top 27 will finish in the money. 1st place paying out 1.8 million Top 10 chip leaders Justin Bonomo 2200000 Greg Raymer 2090000 David ‘WhooooKidd’ Baker 1700000 Lex ‘RaSZi’ Veldhuis 1600000 Ted Forrest 1560000 Vitaly Lunkin 1080000 Brian Townsend 1060000 Noah Schwartz 1050000 [...]